OTHER VISIONS:

Competition Other Visions is the one and only competition section of PAF – Festival of Film Animation. It aims to map out the field of moving images of film and video in the Czech Republic. By curated selections, it tries to enable the current domestic audiovisual production that find itself on the border line between fine arts, video art and animation to be more accessible and openly accepted by the public. Every year's selection has been unique thanks to the various interests of the curators who select ten nominated works. The main criteria for submission into competition are the premise that the work is possible to be screened in the cinema and is not older eighteen months. Both professional and amateur artists can submit their moving images.

Subtle humour, explicit art shortcuts and a seemingly trivial grasp of "serious" topics are characteristic of Matěj Smetana's productions. The author uses the language of graphic manuals, schemata, instructions and popular educative visuals in his economical commentaries about the origin of being. The video trio "Factory 1–3" is some kind of a miniature interpretation of the Big Bang. The author has processed the motifs in a concise form that leaves the viewer with some hope that it is still within our power to meaningfully embrace the immensity of the universe.